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Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediæval antiquities of the island (1859)

Payne, J. Bertrand (James Bertrand), 1833-1898 · [S.l.] : Subscribers' private issue · leaf 27

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* When a bachelor built a house, he left on this stone a blank space on the sinister side, to be filled up upon hisassumption of the shackles of matrimony. 18 INTRODUCTION. E. E.,* between the arms of Poiilett on one side, and Poulett impaling Norreys on the other.On the wall of the keep are the… … powerful stronghold, rendered famous by the prowess ofthe islanders, has been shorn of most of its beauty, andis now gradually crumbling into decay. Over the pre-sent keep soared an upper tower to the height of sixty-four feet,:}: which greatly added to its imposing appear-ance; and its former…

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